STABLE MANAGEMENT, 



GROOMING, FEEDING, CONDITIONING. 



The step is natural and immediate from the dwelling and quar- 

 ters of the horses to the manner of lodging, bedding, clotliing, 

 feeding, caring for and conditioning the animals for wliich we 

 liave provided habitations. 



All the instructions under this head are taken from one or 

 two Englisli works of the highest authoi-ity ; Stewart's Stable 

 Economy, Harry Hieover's Practical Horsemanship, and The 

 Pocket and the Stud, and the diseases and medical treatment of 

 the animal, from the latter author, and from the Appendix, to 

 Youatt on the Horse, with such modifications, as experience has 

 suggested to me as expedient to adapt them to tlie circumstances 

 of tliis climate and country, and as are needed to correct errors 

 and misappliances, liere, of not uufrequent occurrence. 



It will, perhaps, at first appear surprising to my readers, that 

 I should have preserved, unaltered, all that relates to the feeding 

 and conditioning of hunters, when, with few exceptions, no such 

 class of animals exists in America ; but the fact is, that the con- 

 dition required for the hunter is precisely that necessary for the 

 fast, high-bi-ed, hard-worked trotter, to put him in his best form 

 for doing severe work as to speed and distance ; and the method 

 by which to put both animals into that condition is identical. 



All, therefore, that needs to be added, is this, that wherever 

 the hunter is mentioned, the directions are to be held to apply 



